Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

[Brett Schroeder]

The OpenLDAP client is *not* needed on the machine running T-bird - do 
something like the following to convince yourself that t-bird does *not* 
require the ldap client

grep -i ldap /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2/{,R,P}DEPEND

All the work is in setting up the server. Thunderbird itself requires only a 
few simple pieces of info.

See this

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html

and here's some more links (somewhat dated now but they get you thinking in 
the right direction)

http://collingrady.com/2004/07/02/moz-ldap/
http://www.topology.org/comms/ldap.html

The best way to get this working (as is the case for any client-server 
software) is to use ethereal/tcpdump to capture the network requests made by 
t-bird. Then you will see exactly what requests are being sent to & from the 
server. This requires that you understand the protocol and how your server has 
  implemented it

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/

LDAP schemas & servers are way too much fun ;-)

Brett

Ralph Slooten wrote:
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> Hello Abraham,
>
> I have been looking at LDAP myself for ages now, but understand almost
> nothing of it ;-) Anyways, your (first) mail got me thinking to test it
> myself again. I hit the same brick wall you did. It seems that the
> current thunderbird does *not* support LDAP at all (although it does
> present it as an option). I tried from an example on a website (to test
> with their ldap), aswell as random "off-my-head" values but it does not
> append it to the address book.
>
> Maybe it's a thunderbird bug, I don't know (I haven't looked yet)?
>
> All I'm doing here is confirming your problem, not solving it (although
> I would be interested if there is a solution) ;-) Maybe it requires
> openldap to be installed (I only installed it so far on my server, not
> workstation)?
>
> Greetings
> Ralph
>
> Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone:
>>
>>   I recently had some problems sharing my contacts with more than one
>>mail client, so I decided to run a local LDAP server. I emerged OpenLDAP
>>and checked it with phpLDAPadmin. I can browse server's database and
>>add/remove/modify contacts with phpLDAPadmin, but I can't connect to it
>>with a mail application; I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird and I
>>got nothing.
>>
>>   The one I care the most is Thunderbird. I tried to add a link to the
>>server from the Address Book: FILE -> NEW -> LDAP DIRECTORY; I typed
>>what I think is the right parameters and tried, but nothing happened. Am
>>I doing anything wrong?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Abraham
>>
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